Stagger
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; -- often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man. A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling; as, parasitic staggers; apoplectic or sleepy staggers. bewilderment; perplexity.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter. To cause to reel or totter. To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail. To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate. To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock. To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam. To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next. To schedule in intervals.
Flounder
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Any of various flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae or Bothidae.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To flop around as a fish out of water.To make clumsy attempts to move or regain one's balance.To act clumsily or confused; to struggle or be flustered.